13-letter words containing s, a, f, e, h
- fish geranium — zonal geranium.
- fish hatchery — a facility where fish eggs are hatched and the fry raised, especially to stock lakes, streams, and ponds.
- flamethrowers — Plural form of flamethrower.
- flash picture — a photograph made using flash photography.
- flashed glass — clear glass flashed with a thin layer of colored glass or a coating of metallic oxide.
- flemish giant — one of a breed of large domestic rabbits of Belgian origin, having a solid gray, white, or black coat, and raised for its meat and fur.
- flowering ash — a variety of ash tree that produces conspicuous flowers
- fluophosphate — fluorophosphate.
- fly fisherman — one who fishes by fly-casting
- foolhardiness — recklessly or thoughtlessly bold; foolishly rash or venturesome.
- for chrissake — for Christ's sake
- forearm smash — a blow like a punch delivered with the forearm in certain types of wrestling
- foreshadowing — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- fort sheridan — a military reservation in NE Illinois, on W shore of Lake Michigan S of Lake Forest.
- foster father — a man who takes the place of a father in raising a child.
- fountainheads — Plural form of fountainhead.
- fourth estate — the journalistic profession or its members; the press.
- franchisement — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- french pastry — fine, rich, or fancy dessert pastry, especially made from puff paste and filled with cream or fruit preparations.
- freshman week — a week at the beginning of the school year with a program planned to orient entering students, especially at a college.
- frisches haff — a lagoon in N Poland. 52 miles (84 km) long; 4–12 miles (6–19 km) wide.
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- get the shaft — to be tricked or cheated
- half measures — inadequate measures or actions
- half-deserted — (of a place) not having many inhabitants, visitors, etc
- half-digested — to convert (food) in the alimentary canal into absorbable form for assimilation into the system.
- half-finished — ended or completed.
- half-silvered — (of a mirror) having an incomplete reflective coating, so that half the incident light is reflected and half transmitted: used in optical instruments and two-way mirrors
- halfway house — an inn or stopping place situated approximately midway between two places on a road.
- handkerchiefs — Plural form of handkerchief.
- hard feelings — Hard feelings are feelings of anger or bitterness towards someone who you have had an argument with or who has upset you. If you say 'no hard feelings', you are making an agreement with someone not to be angry or bitter about something.
- harpers ferry — a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
- hassenpfeffer — a stew of marinated rabbit meat garnished usually with sour cream.
- have eyes for — to be interested in
- head of state — the person who holds the highest position in a national government: a meeting of heads of state.
- head of steam — momentum; driving power
- healthfulness — conducive to health; wholesome or salutary: a healthful diet.
- heartfeltness — The state or quality of being heartfelt.
- heat transfer — Heat transfer is the movement of heat from one substance or material to another.
- henceforwards — (archaic) henceforth, from this point onwards.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- horsefeathers — (used with a singular or plural verb) something not worth considering.
- hypersurfaces — Plural form of hypersurface.
- ides of march — 15th March: ominous date
- kaffeeklatsch — coffee klatsch.
- kiss of death — a fatal or destructive relationship or action: The support of the outlawed group was the kiss of death to the candidate.
- life is cheap — You use life is cheap or life has become cheap to refer to a situation in which nobody cares that large numbers of people are dying.
- lightfastness — The quality of being lightfast.
- make mischief — cause trouble
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.